Gomig-21
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Now about your idea with Alexandria shipyard producing Egyptian ships. Maybe instead a joint Arab ship to develop at first a FAC and then moving into bigger ships with mostly indigenous electronics. With the Saudi, and Egyptian radars and electronics and Hazem CMS it could certainly be a possibility. Now there is also the UAE which can in theory develop a anti ship variant of the Tariq cruise missile in a ground launched variant for anti ship use, it would look a hell of a lot similar to the RBS-15.
That all sounds amazing and taking the Saudi/UAE/Egypt relations into consieration, it doesn't get any freindlier than these 3 and you would think it wouldn't be a difficult process to make such a cooperation work. But for some reason, it always seems to get complicated. You have Saudiya already paying over $30 billion for a bunch of US ships and incredible, top of the line naval assets while working on these French Gowinds as well as the Hazem CMS and not to mention what the UAE is involved in which is too much to even begin to mention and then take us, and all our projects from small radars to ToT on the Gowinds also to all sorts or weapon's systems and armored vehicles and so on and so forth. Getting people to organize such an endeavor -- and GOD forbid we actually start lighting it up in Libya!!!! And you know the UAE will be involved -- and it just seems like even if it's such a great idea, to get it rolling seems like a very difficult task. I like it, though, and maybe I'm wrong and it's not that difficult?
Some pics.
Presidential Blackhawk escorted by a pair of Apaches.
EAF F-16s
Block 52s on a training mission.
F-16D blk 52 (@The SC there's that idium-tinted canopy)
This picture has me a bit frazzled & puzzled @The SC , @Philip the Arab , @ARCH٤R , does that weapon's crewman look Egyptian or is he American with that uniform? And those colored boots? I'm thinking this is a joint weapon's loading drill with the US.
Cool angle view of a Rafale.
A rare look at one of the aggressor's F-16 blck-52 landing in the background.
And going back in time a little, Mirage VSDE.